THE INDESTRUCTIBLE TRUTH

THE
INDESTRUCTIBLE TRUTH

By
Jeannette Haley

“Every
one that is of the truth heareth my voice.” – John 18:37b

Where
does a person start on the subject of truth? I can’t even begin to wrap my mind
around the reality and essence of truth, or adequately answer that question
because truth is immeasurably vaster, deeper, higher and wider than the human
mind can conceive. Truth itself, like mathematics, is not a material, tangible
thing, yet that which is seen expresses the reality of truth. In other words, “All things were made by him: and without
him was not any thing made that was made” John 1:3. Therefore, I’m just
going to jump in and hopefully bring forth a few nuggets of truth that will
inspire and challenge hearts.

To
begin with, no human, regardless of how brilliant and well-versed they may be,
can fully define, express, explain or understand the Second Person of the
Godhead, Jesus Christ. Christians know that He said of Himself, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no
man cometh unto the Father but by me.” (John 14:6.) While we may know that
Jesus said this, the question is do we truly believe it? If we believe it,
surely our lives will bear witness to that fact, not only in our conversation
with others, but also as consistently expressed in our disposition and lifestyle,
and by keeping ourselves from idolatrous compromise.

When
we receive Christ, we receive not only the way and the life but the truth, and
that truth must be received into the very core of our being. The Bible tells
us, “And with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the
truth, that they might be saved” 2 Thessalonians 2:10. Receiving a love for
the truth is essential to salvation, for Jesus is the truth, His Word is truth
(John 17:17), and Jesus is the Word. (John 1:1.) Therefore, if you are still
clinging to your one-world, New Age, Jesuit-approved Bible version, beware! David
Daniels wrote, “There are two ways to change a Bible from what God meant us to
have in our language. The first is to translate from a Greek or Hebrew text
that added to and took away from God’s words. The second is to change the
meanings of those Greek and Hebrew words to something other than the historical
meaning, something that God never meant. No matter how good a job you do in
translating, the end product will not be what God said. It will be men’s
opinions. [Author of ”Why They Changed The Bible: One World Bible For One World
Religion”]. The point
is, we need to love the truth whether we agree with it or not, and honestly seek
the truth, receive the truth, cling to the truth, believe the truth and obey
the truth if we are to be truly saved because Jesus is the truth!

If
the truth of the Word of God is hidden in our hearts, if we are grounded on the
truth and standing on the truth then that truth is a powerful weapon against
the father of lies. The Word of God is a two-edged sword—it either sets you
free, or cuts you asunder. “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any
twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and
of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the
heart.” What we need is God’s perspective on
everything, and not man’s opinions, including ours. Gaining God’s perspective
based on Spirit and truth will give us discernment as to what is true or false.
Knowing and believing the truth gives us discernment so that we are able to
judge righteous judgment. (John 7:24.)

In light of the weakness of the traditional evangelical church
to execute righteous judgment, A. W. Tozer said, “The fact is
that, we are not producing saints. We are making converts to an effete type of
Christianity, that bears little resemblance to that of the New Testament. The
average so-called Bible Christian of our times is but a shallow display of true
sainthood. Yet, we put millions of dollars behind ‘movements’ to perpetuate
this lower form of religion and attack the man who dares to challenge the
wisdom of it.” Righteous judgment, and the power and wisdom to carry it out must
be based on truth, for any judgment rendered without truth will also be void of
God’s righteousness and therefore will miss the mark.

For example, there is an erroneous
teaching (unrighteous judgment) from the WOF (Word of Faith) heretics
concerning Job that goes like this: “The reason Job went through so much
suffering is because he lacked faith so what he feared came upon him.” The
truth is, the entire Book of Job is about Job’s faith in God in spite of his
great suffering. Oswald Chambers wrote
in his book about Job, Baffled to Fight
Better, “To speak the thing which is right about God, I must be in living
personal relationship with Him. God is riddling the friends because while
preaching the right thing, they have misrepresented Him and told a lie about
the Author of Truth. If I preach the right thing but do not live it, I am
telling an untruth about God. This is one of the cardinal truths of
Christianity (see Romans 2:17-23). ‘But,’ a man says, ‘how am I going to live
the truth?’ The Sermon on the Mount says we must have a disposition which is
never lustful or spiteful or evil; where are we going to begin? Unless Jesus
Christ can put into us His own heredity, it is impossible. But that is just
what He claims He can do. By regeneration Jesus Christ can put into any man the
disposition that will make him the living example of what he preaches. The
baptism of the Holy Ghost did not add anything to the Apostles’ doctrine, it
made them specimens of what they taught (see Acts 1:8).”

Those who likewise condemn and
unrighteously judge Job are as guilty before God as were Job’s friends whom God
told Job to pray for so that they could be forgiven. The difference today is, Job
is no longer available to pray for his modern attackers who mock him and twist
the truth in order to justify their doctrines of demons. Therefore, on the Day
of Judgment they will be required to stand before the Judge Himself to give an
account of why they didn’t believe what God said about Job, and why they turned
the truth into a lie. I would hate to be in their shoes!

Concerning
the truth, I’ve related this incident before, but it bears repeating here that
back in the early 80’s when I was in a trying situation, and was literally on
my face praying, the Lord showed me a “picture” that looked like a ball so thickly
wrapped in twine that you couldn’t see any part of it. The Spirit said, “The
whole world is wrapped in lies.” I have to admit, I was surprised and thought
to myself how could the whole world be totally wrapped in lies? Now, after many
years of exposure to the world’s systems, corrupt governments, gross wickedness,
abominations and ungodliness, along with the rapid decline of true Christianity
among evangelicals, it’s plain to see how Satan is indeed “the god of this
world.” (2 Corinthians 4:3.) Isaiah
25:7 tells us what God will do concerning the world’s captivity to falsehood
and deception, “And he [God] will destroy in this mountain the face of
the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all
nations.”

This
is good news to those of us who are sick and tired of all the falsehoods
spewing forth through nearly every news agency and mass media today. Throngs of
people crave the truth like a desert traveler craves fresh water. Not only do
we desperately need the truth concerning the state of our Union, but the global
situation as well. We get bits and pieces of “truthful” news from the few
reliable news sources available, and thank God for honest reporters, plus we
can glean from certain reliable Internet sources. From these we can discern
that which is prophetically relevant and important. It’s no secret that lies,
hoaxes and falsehoods are ramping up in these increasingly dark days as wickedness
exalts itself, fulfilling biblical prophecies.

None
of the shocking, and sometimes downright horrifying events of our time,
however, could have culminated into the unresolvable problems we’re now facing
if the foundations hadn’t been shaken and destroyed years ago. I’m talking
about the foundation of justice and truth as established by the Word of God.
Because we have forsaken, not only the truth and wisdom of God’s Word for our
nation, but God Himself, we are now reaping the consequences. The Church,
instead of standing separate from the world while holding forth the Light of
the world, has compromised and played the harlot with the world. The result? She
is no longer the church triumphant, no longer a threat to Satan and his
advancements, and no longer a place of refuge for lost souls seeking the way to
salvation.

Justice
has been shattered into pieces that translate into justice for some, and
injustice for others. Our nation is experiencing the evils of a two-tiered
justice system which is a far cry from what our founding fathers established.
Meanwhile, “. . . judgment
is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in
the street, and equity cannot enter” Isaiah
59:14, while a two-fold satanic foundation of lies has been laid of
evolution and humanistic psychology. This has paved the way for Communism (also
known as Socialism and Progressivism), political correctness (thanks to Karl
Marx) along with a growing culture of death through drugs, gangs, violence,
lawlessness, and outright insanity (demon possession).

Vance
Ferrell in The Evolution Handbook
wrote, “When we search for a reason for the fierceness (See 2 Tim. 3) of some
of the politics today, we need look no further than Darwin’s theory of
evolution. Since this new religion has replaced respect for a Creator, Paul’s
list of perilous times described to Timothy is increasingly real.

“Darwinism
has had a devastating impact on society. Its ramifications reach into the
deepest aspects of social life and culture.” The BattleCry – April issue states, “Evolution leaves man without a
spirit—just another one of the animals. Thus, there is no right or wrong. And
if ‘survival of the fittest’ is the ultimate aim, then there is no room for the
weak and powerless. They must be eliminated, fiercely if necessary. . . . It is
hard to detail all the ways that evolution’s elimination of God affects our
world. Since ‘science’ has replaced God as the source of truth, one need only
look at where this has taken us. Science says that preborn babies are only
blobs of tissue; thus 60 million U.S. murders by abortion since Roe v Wade.
(Some 40 million more are killed worldwide each year.).

So,
here we are, looking around us at the shambles of what was once a great nation,
“under God” where families prayed together and stayed together; where God,
prayer, and patriotism was not only taught at home by Christian parents and
grandparents, but encouraged in the schools, and, believe it or not, in
colleges. Those days were what I call the “Norman Rockwell” days where
innocence, morality, discipline, hard work, patriotism, God-honoring churches
abounded, the laws were enforced, and love of fellow man was the norm. We even
had common sense for the most part! Now we murder each other and our innocent
children, both inside and outside of the womb; allow perversion and
abominations to run rampant, while lawlessness is out of control. Gangs of wild
young men with no conscience are a real threat in every major city;
kidnappings, rape and murder are on the daily news, and people whose ideologies
are based on lies froth at the mouth with hatred, threatening anyone who dares
to disagree with them, and then we wonder why God isn’t happy with us?

Our culture has a problem with the truth! The
truth used to unite us as a civilization, for the most part. But now, lies rule
in every area because to always tell the truth is not politically correct. So,
we remain silent, or try to compromise in order to keep the peace by telling a
half-truth. Therefore, half-truths take root in our “social culture” such as, for
example, have you noticed the frequent out-of-context, flippant use of John 8:32, “the truth
shall make you free” by both professing Christians and non-Christians?
It has almost become a slogan used in news reports, speeches, commentaries,
movies, talk shows, wall plaques and so forth. A whole new spin has been put on
this Scripture, and that is exactly how Satan works. His specialty is in
ear-tickling half-truths that appeal to weak people with itching ears, and if
they are repeated often enough these half-truths become, in the minds of unbelievers
and nominal believers alike, a “new truth.” I say “new” because once a truth is
altered by either adding to it, or taking from it, error is the result and behind
that is a wrong spirit. Those who love the truth can have no fellowship or
agreement with those who have a wrong spirit; therefore, if such people refuse
to receive a love for the truth, they will remain unteachable, and unrepentant.
Eventually the fruit produced by their lives is pure hatred for anyone or
anything that disagrees with them.

Returning
to the Scripture being discussed, concerning being set free by the truth, John 8:32, Jesus said to those Jews who
believed on him, “If ye continue in my
word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the
truth shall make you free.” As with all of God’s promises, there is a
condition to be met and it’s this: they must continue in His Word, as disciples
(students, followers) and then they would know the truth, and the truth would
set them free. Not, as some preach, free from debt, or suffering, or
tribulation, or loss, or poverty, but spiritually free. This may be
disappointing to some who have been taught, and hold to the idea that Jesus
came to set us free from a lousy lifestyle, money miseries or popularity
problems. No, no, no! He didn’t come to make us happy, rich, or famous. If He
had, He would’ve done so for His own, the Jews, at His first coming.

It’s totally amazing
how super special man thinks he is. But, that’s how Satan works. First, he slyly
slithers through any open door we give him, even if it’s only opened a crack. Pride
is such a door because out of pride comes self-pity, unforgiveness, anger,
jealousy, covetousness, idolatry, ingratitude, and unbelief, to name a few.
After all, pride deceives us into thinking that we have a right to be treated
special, and that we deserve to be happy, rich and famous. Add to that the
insidious half-truths that we can become little gods, and the ending to
“Invictus” by William Ernest Henley, “It matters not how strait the gate, How
charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the
captain of my soul” becomes the sail that powers our boat on a sea of
half-truths.

Can you see how far we fall from the truth of reality
when we believe half-truths that appeal to the unregenerate flesh? The only
truth that makes people free is God’s truth, for not all truth is God’s truth!
We know God’s truth by continuing in God’s Word, and by faith living in
obedience to it. As we work out what God works into us through His Word, then
“the truth shall make you free.” This
is why I cringe every time someone who is either on the “fringes” of
Christianity, or who is spiritually lost altogether flippantly quotes out of
context, “The truth shall set you free.” Only the Person of the Lord Jesus
Christ, who is the Truth, can set us free regardless of how much we quote
Scripture out of context and try to make it fit our particular narrative. We
cannot have the Holy Spirit apart from Truth, and we cannot have Truth apart
from the Holy Spirit.

In an article on Israel by Thomas Lieth, he said some things
about what I consider to be the result of half-truths that are worth quoting.
He wrote, “Isn’t it true today, that many people have cobbled together their
own God? They speak of a ‘loving God’ who forgives everything, does nothing to
anyone, and saves everyone. They speak of a God who lets everyone act according
to his own will, and who only stirs when asked to fulfill a wish. One treats
God like a gumball machine, which stands lifeless, and into which one only has
to make a small deposit to get something beautiful back. So, everyone has their
own idea of God. But he has little to do with the God of Scripture. And some
are quite scared that God is not what they thought and wanted. The people of
Jesus’ time had a false conception of the Messiah, and people today have a
false conception of God. The result of that time should serve as a warning to
us today. Jesus spoke from the cross at Calvary: ‘Father, forgive them; for
they know not what they do.’ That hits the nail on the head: they didn’t know
what they were actually doing. They were confused and torn: first, to see in
Jesus the deeds and authority of the promised Messiah; and second, to have a
completely different idea of their Messiah. They expected a Messiah who would
bring eternal peace, free them from the bondage of Rome, and punish their oppressors
(Isa. 9:6; Jer. 30:20).”

These people had the Old Testament, but their lack of
understanding, like so many since the time of Christ up to the present day, was
largely due to the fact that they had their own take on certain Scriptures based
on their own worldview and perspective which, when taken out of context, could
give rise to all sorts of faulty conclusions. Understandably, it’s easy to
over-emphasize certain Scriptures (that we think we have a handle on) to the
diminishment of more obscure passages of the Word. The danger of this
assumption is we will end up dissecting the Sword of God. Jesus said that “It is written, Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God,” Matthew 4:4.
He also said, “Heaven and earth shall
pass away, but my words shall not pass away,” Matthew 24:35. How comforting
it is to know that the truth is indestructible, and even though heaven and
earth shall pass away, His eternal Words, the indestructible Truth will continue
to stand.

In his article Thomas Lieth also wrote concerning the Jews
who rejected Jesus as their Messiah because He didn’t fit into their idea of
the Messiah: “This should also be a warning to us, against ripping biblical
statements out of their overall context, picking and choosing only what we
like, or what is pleasant and contemporary. That makes it very easy to make
serious errors. The vast majority of cults and ominous church movements make
precisely this mistake. They tear individual statements out of their context,
focus on a certain biblical passage, and overlook the rest, which, if better
considered, would bring them greater insight. Thus, man builds his own gospel,
which relies only on half-truths. But half a truth is always a lie, so the
‘gospel’ is no longer consistent with biblical truth.”

I’m sure you’ve noticed
the fruit coming out of the lives of mockers who love lies and hate the truth, and
who yell the loudest about “equality,” “social justice and socialism,” “impeach
Trump,” “open borders,” “resist conservatives,” “save the planet, kill a baby,”
and “keep God out of politics, schools, and public places” among other things.
Their “fruit” is evil like the rotten figs the Lord showed Jeremiah in Chapter 24. The
fruit they produce is dark and vile, seething with hatred towards truth and
righteousness. Such are deceived, lost souls whose toxic brand of “love” is geared
towards lying and the fake media. They defend lawbreakers, illegal immigrants,
murderous gangs, deadly drugs, destructive addictions, all manner of sexual
perversion, child abduction and pornography. Certain American cities are now
considered to be “dying” as a direct result of the out-of-control drug problem
and yet lawmakers are backing proposals in nearly every state to legalize
Marijuana which is the first step towards addiction to hard drugs, demon
possession, death and hell. “Having the
understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance
that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past
feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness
with greediness” Ephesians 18, 19.

This
short summation of the mess we’ve created for ourselves is because, bottom
line, the Truth that will make people free has been rejected, minimized,
ignored, and often despised by a changing American culture. The Protestant church,
which was once the bastion and defender of truth has, instead of maintaining
the truth in its entirety, over the years reduced truth to the status of an
outdated relic of antiquity. Truth is looked upon as an “antique” that just
doesn’t “fit” into our developed western lifestyle and culture. It’s outdated,
and impractical and has been replaced by higher learning, humanism, evolution,
psychology, and science. Without practical use in our modern day and age, truth
is subconsciously enshrined under a glass dome of disregard and forgetfulness in
the back of the collective church memory. If asked if they believe the truth,
deluded souls would affirm that they do, but would be hard pressed to give a
correct definition of it. After all, it’s a part of their church history,
right? Besides, the reality of truth is embarrassing to a worldly, carnal
church where compromise and outward appearances are the bedrock of its survival.
The power of the truth is a threat to modern church leaders who have been
converted to the unbelief of agnosticism, universalism, and relativism by
unbelieving liberal professors teaching in liberal seminaries. What they fail
to consider is that rejection of the Truth of God’s Word is a rejection of the
Word who was made flesh and dwelt among us. The day is coming when they will
stand before the Judge of all the earth and He will say, “I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity” Matthew 7:23b.

When
people find Christ and receive a love for the truth, embrace the truth, believe
the truth, obey the truth, cling to the truth and walk in the truth then they
find themselves free from sin, and free from a confused mind, a divided heart,
wayward tendencies, fears, insecurities, and worry. To know, love, and believe
the truth is what makes us free from the fear of man, the world and the devil.
If we are in Christ, and He in us, then we can stand in His authority and use
the sword of truth against all the works, ways and wiles of the devil, cutting
asunder the lies that entangle and pull us down into oppressive bondage and
darkness. (See Revelation 21:7, 8.) The indestructible truth, the Lord Jesus
Christ is the only One who can set us free from this: “For all that is
in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of
life, is not of the Father, but is of the world” 1 John 2:16.

Finally, may “Grace
and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our
Lord, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain
unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to
glory and virtue” 2 Peter 1:2, 3.